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"CrOENiS Banyumas (Horsfield) Horsfield's Redbreast. 

 The red breasted fly catcher, C° Rubeculoides, Vig;, given in 

 Emerson Tennant's list as the Ceylon bird, is in reality an in- 

 habitant of north India -and is represented in the south 

 of the Peninusula by C, Banyumas. The species which is 

 common in the thick jungle some few miles from Colombo 

 agrees with the latter in coloration and dimensions, and 

 has the chin and a line from it, along the base of the lower 

 mandible, to the cheeks, black. I think therefore that we 

 may conclude that C. Banyumas is our bird. I have not 

 succeeded in finding the nest of this bird but judging from 

 the fact of the young being plentiful in May and June, it must 

 breed in April. The female differs from the male in being 

 * • lighter on the upper surface, in having the lores fulvous grey 

 and the chin concolorous with the chest and throat, which are 

 fulvous instead of rufous, and in the bill and legs being 

 lighter. 



The young in nestling plumage have the upper plumage 

 bluish brown, the forehead head and hind neck striated with 

 light fulvous, the back and scapulars with terminal spots of the 

 same ; chin and throat dappled fulvous gray ; chest and under 

 surface fulvous, the feathers of the former with blackish mar- 

 gins and the abdomen albescent. As far as I have observed 

 this flycatcher is almost exclusively confined to the jungle. 

 It is very active on the wing. 



Tephrodoknis Affinis (Blyth). The allied Wood Shrike. 



Migratory to this Province, appearing in October. It is 

 plentiful in the Cinnamon gardens during the N. E. Monsoon. 

 In April the young birds are in the following plumage : the 

 upper surface has a spotted appearance, the feathers of head, 

 nape and wing coverts having a terminal white spot, some o£ 

 the greater wing coverts and inner tertiaries are yellow brown, 

 edged light with a dark line or border round the margin. 



